Example sentences of "[Wh pn] be [v-ing] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now it is they who are trying to manipulate us , ’ one reformist said in disgust as he was leaving a caucus meeting . |
| 2 | He says I 'm writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray . |
| 3 | In America I tell people who are trying to spell it : ‘ You know , like the thing that runs round the roof of your house . ’ |
| 4 | Communiqués issued recently by the Department of Antiquities confirm that some of these historic items are still in Iraq in the hands of merchants who are trying to smuggle them out of the country for huge sums of money . |
| 5 | The rapist and child killer she sees as her friend , her traumatised father , her sad , sick mother or the police who are trying to trace her ? |
| 6 | This is manifested in a strong desire to break away from corporate environments seen as financially restrictive , especially those businesses which are obviously very profitable but where the profits are not fairly shared out among those who are helping to generate them . |
| 7 | Because we all try to twist circumstances in such a way that they conform with our subconscious picture of ourselves , those who see themselves as permanent victims will automatically seek out people who are going to treat them as such . |
| 8 | ‘ Stand-alone policies are bought by people who are going to use them . |
| 9 | Unique , because every system is different both in terms of hardware and software needs and the skills of the staff who are going to use it . |
| 10 | By putting a premium on the use of it , then presumably , there are going to be fewer people who are going to use it over a period of time . |
| 11 | The planning of operations by those who are going to carry them out , obviates delay and misunderstandings which happen to be caused by intermediate stages , and makes for the speed of execution which in any operation of this kind is an incalculable asset . |
| 12 | In a good organization the objectives that have to be achieved are decided with considerable interaction between those who are going to carry them out , and those who ultimately have the responsibility for the leadership of the enterprise . |
| 13 | I just do n't want people coming in who are going to spoil it . ’ |
| 14 | We 've noticed that the numbers of young homeless people who are coming to see us have risen and risen over the last few months and few years . |
| 15 | Mothers who 're campaigning to keep it open say demand for places is growing , but the school has been refused permission to expand . |
| 16 | The Marquess of Blandford is back in prison tonight , charged with assualting two police officers who were trying to arrest him after he 'd been on the run for four days . |
| 17 | An inquest has heard how a man died in a scuffle with friends who were trying to stop him driving while he was drunk . |
| 18 | An inquest has heard how a footballer died in a scuffle with friends who were trying to stop him drink driving . |
| 19 | ‘ But we had managers who were trying to get us to play the steak houses of LA , which is like a trip to nowhere , and yet there was this cult thing growing on the East Coast and in the South , and it turned out that by the time we joined Fleetwood Mac we were headlining in our own right to five thousand people in the South and East , but totally starving in LA ! |
| 20 | The Collector and Hookum Singh had their backs to this wall of flesh , with bayonets sprouting from between their legs and under their armpits ; they were shoving and shoving , and they in turn were being shoved by the other Sikhs , who were struggling to keep them in place . |
| 21 | The shipwrights of Exeter , for example , bound themselves in 1766 not to work for masters who were seeking to employ them at " less wages than have been from time immemorially paid to journeymen shipwrights " , to " deprive " them of " several of their ancient rights and privileges " and to impose longer hours than had been " usual and customary " . |
| 22 | Late one afternoon Rioja had rushed in to tell them that the whole camp was being evacuated across the border and they must flee before the men who were coming to shoot them reached the hut . |
| 23 | As vesting day , 1 April 1948 , approached , the shape of the organisations which were to take over the industry , and the men who were going to lead them at national and regional level were known . |
| 24 | The police account was that Garcia was shot while struggling with officers who were attempting to disarm him . |
| 25 | My family , who were threatening to visit us en masse the first weekend of May , ca n't come after all ( plans fell through ) , so wo n't need B & B. But they might some day . |
| 26 | His face and body were a mass of bruises after he had been attacked at his home by a forty-strong mob who were preparing to lynch him in the remains of his once beautiful garden when the military had arrived and bundled him into the back of a police van and brought him to La Tambier . |
| 27 | The two officers who were scribbling eyed her curiously . |
| 28 | Do you not think that I mean the people who were saying keep them there they 're saying it adds something to what 's in the city centre do you not agree ? |
| 29 | ‘ Culley , yes ; but anyone — anyone who 's trying to track him down . |
| 30 | I want you to try and do that for as long as you can , the person 's who 's trying to take them off it you try and take them off that point as long as you can , the other person stick to your guns , okay ? |